Posted on 02/23/2017 5:16:08 AM PST by Helicondelta
A THR and National Research Group survey reveals how Clinton voters and Trump voters view the Oscars differently.
And you thought Obamacare was a hot-button issue. According to a new THR poll, Americans are nearly as divided about the Oscars as they are about health care.
The survey — conducted by the National Research Group, which in early February canvassed 800 people (half Hillary Clinton voters, half Donald Trump voters) for their opinions about movies, award shows and politics — reveals that two-thirds of Trumpsters have turned off their TV sets because of an actor giving a political speech at the podium, compared to just 19 percent of Clinton voters.
Even if they don’t hit the off button, 44 percent of Trump voters find awards speeches “too political” while Clinton supporters want more politics at the Academy Awards; 43 percent say they want winners to reference Trump’s temperament in their speeches (compared to 8 percent of Trump voters), 39 percent would like more discussion of women’s rights at the Oscars (8 percent for Trump voters) and 34 percent would like more talk about Trump’s seven-nation travel ban (7 percent for Trump voters).
In general, 68 percent of Trump voters say they “dislike” political speeches at the Oscars while only 23 percent of Clinton voters feel the same. About the only area of agreement is that neither side finds Oscar acceptance speeches particularly convincing: Only about a quarter of respondents on both sides of the political fence said their opinion about an issue has ever been changed by an awards show.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
The only awards shows you are free of this stuff is the country ones. And that might be changing because they have Snoop Dog handing out awards at the ACM
I’m thrilled when a plumber fixes a broken toilet... or a doctor a broken body. But I damn sure don’t want to spend hours watching a ‘Plumbers or Doctor’s Award Show’.
Same with Hollywood.
Movies are fine - but their awards shows are dreadful.
Could it be 66% of the Trump supporters that watch those shows, tune out? I don’t believe two thirds of us watch them.
“Only about a quarter of respondents on both sides of the political fence said their opinion about an issue has ever been changed by an awards show.”
I think that is bull...
I’ll bet it’s 5% or less
“Only about a quarter of respondents on both sides of the political fence said their opinion about an issue has ever been changed by an awards show.”
I think that is bull...
I’ll bet it’s 5% or less
Why? Because if there's anything that Hollywood worships unabashedly, it's making money. And all those "political" speeches could turn off way too many moviegoers from watching the "tent pole" blockbuster films between May through August 2017. I think all the nominees have been warned by AMPAS Board of Governors NOT to do blatantly political speeches like what happened at the WGA awards presentation last weekend.
I don’t even turn them on. Flatulence-belching celebrities trading shiny objects with each other doesn’t do anything for me.
Just try getting up and giving a Pro-Life speech at the Oscars!
Or an anti-AGW talk.
Or a “Liberals, if you ‘Love Mother Earth’ please pick up your trash after you protest!” suggestion.
Awards Shows are only marginally worse that wasting your time watching “professional sports.”
“We have Netflix”
What? We have Netflix and their “on=line movies” are just a bucket of one and two star crap offerings. It takes patience to wade through their listings to find something that’s worthy of an hour and a half of our time. And for the most part, the actors are the same worthless bastards and bastardettes who give themselves “oscars.”
why bother watching at all...???
hollywood is a cesspool
the “stars” are pathetic hollograms of warped morality and ignorance
i also dont go to movies and dont pay for any on demand and could care less if hollywood fell into the pacific, along iwth the rest of moonbeam’s social disaster...
For fake people
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